Publications & Documents

Food prices

What do you do if a small rise in the price of bread or rice means your family goes hungry? Will it be possible to increase food production fast enough to keep pace with population growth in years to come? Are high food prices here to stay?

Harnessing Variable Renewables - A Guide To The Balancing Challenge

Written for decision makers, Harnessing Variable Renewables: a Guide to the Balancing Challenge sheds light on managing power systems with large shares of variable renewables.

Climate and Electricity Annual 2011 - Data and Analyses

The IEA Climate and Electricity Annual 2011 provides an authoritative resource on progress to date in this area, with statistics related to CO2 and the electricity sector across ten regions of the world.

Development

How to deliver better policies for better lives in the developing world? What is the real development challenge today for those living in poverty? Development has been a fundamental part of the OECD story for half a century, and it is providing new solutions for new challenges.

OECD Launches Your Better Life Index

How do you define a better life? Your Better Life Index is a new interactive tool that lets you measure and compare well-being across 34 countries, based on 11 dimensions: housing, income, jobs, community, education, environment, governance, health, life satisfaction, safety, work-life balance.

Compendium of OECD well-being indicators

This Compendium represents one of the first attempts to respond to the demand for comparative information on the conditions of people.s lives in developed market economies.

Slovenia joins the OECD Nuclear Energy Agency

"We are very pleased to welcome Slovenia to the Agency,” said NEA Director-General Luis Echávarri. “Through its full membership, Slovenia will build on its past collaboration with the NEA to further contribute to the top international scientific, technological and legal expertise required for the safe, environmentally friendly and economical use of nuclear energy for peaceful purposes.”

International Conference: Jobs, growth and values - Creating opportunities for new generations

We have a very timely opportunity for developing a new paradigm for development, including domestic resources mobilisation, innovation, gender equality, good governance and anti corruption, said A. Gurría.

OECD Week 2011: Message from U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, Chair of the Ministerial Council Meeting

On this 50th anniversary, let us reaffirm our shared commitment to “better policies for better lives” as we usher in a new era of cooperation not only across the Atlantic, but among our partners throughout the world.

The OECD and Russia: Working together for a stronger world economy

OECD membership will bring Russia a unique opportunity to exchange policy views with a wide range of countries, promote its perspectives on economic policy and benefit from the disciplines that OECD standards can bring.